Edmund Garnett

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Edmund Garnett accepts instructions in all of Chambers’ core practice areas, with a particular interest in police law, professional misconduct, inquests and public inquiries, public and administrative law and data law.

Edmund regularly appears in the County Court and High Court in civil claims, as well as the Magistrates’ Court and Crown Court in operational policing matters. He has successfully resisted appeals under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 in the First-tier Tribunal, and frequently advises on and settles pleadings in relation to claims in false imprisonment, negligence, battery, misfeasance in public office, malicious prosecution, and liability under both the Human Rights Act 1998 and the Data Protection Act 2018. He has experience of and an interest in the complexities surrounding the forfeiture of cryptoassets.

He has experience of advising and drafting in a judicial review setting, and has been instructed on several public inquiries: the Post Office Horizon IT Inquiry, the Malkinson Inquiry and the Covid Inquiry. He is a member of the Government Legal Department’s “Junior Juniors” scheme.

Edmund was educated at the University of Oxford, where he completed a Bachelor of Arts degree in Ancient and Modern History (First Class) and a Master of Studies degree in Late Antique and Byzantine Studies (Distinction). He was elected a scholar of his college and was awarded the Angus Macintyre Prize for most promising historian. During his undergraduate degree, he coached a debating team at a local school.

He completed both the GDL and BPTC at City Law School, as an Exhibitioner and Major Scholar of the Inner Temple.

Prior to coming to the Bar, Edmund worked as a Research and Policy Officer in Parliament.